When watching costume dramas, I often see such a scene:
When a man was about to go out of the house, his wife took out a bag of money and said, "Bring more money and use more money when you go out." ”
The poet is very puzzled, why, the ancients called the pipe fee "coiled"?
The recent "Chinese Poetry Conference" provides the answer.
As we all know, the most common currency in ancient times was the square hole round coin, commonly known as the copper coin.
When the ancients traveled far away, they used ropes to string copper coins, wrap them around their waists, or put them on their backs, and over time, the road expenses were called "coiled entanglements".
In "Water Margin", Lu Zhishen rescued Jin Lao'er and his daughter Cuilian, took out the money, and gave them the travel expenses.
Lao'er, you come! Sprinkle the family and you, and go back to Tokyo tomorrow, how about ?—— "Water Margin: The Third Round"
Entangled also has the meaning of cost and expense.
There are also many entanglements in "Golden Vase Plum".
On that day, Ximen Qing was at the woman's house until late and wanted to go home, leaving a few taels of silver to entangle with the woman. - "The Golden Vase Plum Chapter: The Sixth Round"
In addition to entanglement, the ancients had many interesting names for money.
No matter how much you want to break your head, you can't imagine that money has another name, called Quanbu.
In ancient times, spring and cloth were both currency.
"Guanzi National Accumulation": "Pearls and jade are used as the upper currency, gold is the middle currency, and knife and cloth are used as the lower currency. ”
It is recorded in the Book of Han and the Second Chronicle of Food and Goods: "Those who privately cast spring cloth did not become official slaves and maids with their wives. ”
If anyone mints money without permission, then he will be punished with his wife and children as a slave and a servant.
Spring, which originally refers to spring water, has the characteristics of wide circulation and uninterrupted flow.
"Jin Shi Food and Goods Zhi III" recorded: "Money is a spring, expensive circulation and cannot be stuffed." ”
Money and spring water are similar in nature.
Therefore, Izumi has also become synonymous with money.
Wei Zhuang has a poem: Qingzhou is familiar with it, and Mr. Quanbu is getting old.
Calling money with spring cloth is really not money, and every sentence is not separated from money.
Quanbu, there are very few people who have heard of it, but, Brother Kong Fang, there are too many people who have heard of it.
Because there is a square hole in the copper coin, the money is also called "Brother Kong Fang".
The first person to call Qian Brother Kong Fang was Lu Bao, a hermit of the Western Jin Dynasty.
During the Jin Dynasty, the discipline was corrupt, bribery was rampant, the world was declining, and everyone regarded money as a treasure.
Lu Bao wrote the article "The Theory of the God of Money", which said: Dear like a brother, the word is Kong Fang.
The world treats it like a brother and gives it the nickname "Kong Fang".
This is where Brother Kong Fang's name comes from.
宋代时，黄庭坚屡屡被贬谪。
On this day, he met his fellow villager Kong Pingzhong, and with emotion, he wrote a poem "Drama Presents Kong Yi's Father", which began with a saying:
Guan Chengzi has no carnivorous appearance, and Brother Kong Fang has a letter of renunciation.
This is Huang Tingjian's self-deprecation.
For a person like me who makes a living by writing articles, without the order of the marquis to worship the prime minister, Brother Kong Fang would have sent me a letter of renunciation.
Huang Tingjian explained in a gentle manner that he had no relationship with money.
Brother Kong Fang was a name that was very popular among scribes.
Some people regard money as a brother, but some people regard money as a "blockage".
Such a story is recorded in "The New Language of the World".
Wang Yan, a minister of the Jin Dynasty, was a Qing talker.
Wang Yan advertised himself as a high-minded person, sneered at money, and didn't talk about it.
However, Wang Yan's wife, Guo, loves money as much as her life.
Wang Yan despises his wife's behavior, and when he is at home, he never mentions money.
Seeing that her husband didn't understand her, Guo thought of a trick.
While her husband was asleep, Guo wrapped strings of copper coins around Wang Yan's bed.
In this way, when Wang Yan woke up, he couldn't get out of bed, and he would definitely have to say the word "money".
The plan is very good, but Wang Yan does not play cards according to common sense.
The next day, Wang Yan woke up, saw a circle of copper coins around the bed, blocking the way, called the maid loudly, pointed to the copper coins with his finger and said, "Lift but block."
"Thing" means "thing", and "Aduwu" means "this thing".
What Wang Yan said was: "Take these things." ”
Wang Yan used a blockage to refer to money, and in such a situation, he refused to say a word for money.
Then, "Ah Duwu" refers to a contemptuous term for money.
What's even more strange is that there are people who use people's names as money names.
In "Golden Vase Plum", there is a poem in the thirtieth chapter: Wealth and nobility must be obtained by treachery, and fame is all due to Deng Tongcheng.
Deng Tong here refers to money.
Deng Tong is also a person.
In the Western Han Dynasty, Emperor Wen Liu Heng once dreamed of a yellow head man pushing him to the sky.
The next day, according to the scene in his dream, he looked for Huang Toulang, who was Deng Tong.
Emperor Wen doted on Deng Tong very much, and the relationship between the two was very close.
One day, a Xiangshi showed Deng Tong, and Xiangshi said, "Deng Tong may die of poverty and hunger." ”
When Emperor Wen heard this: "I am the emperor, how can I let you starve to death." ”
So he gave Deng Tong a copper mountain in Shu County, and made an exception to allow him to open mines and mint money.
Deng Tong minted half a tael of coins, all over the world.
Later, Deng Tong became Qian's new name.
Money is a good thing, and everyone craves money that can never be spent.
Then, the frog [fú] can fulfill your wishes.
There is a wonderful story in "Sou Shen Ji".
There is a bug in the south, called the green worm, which is slightly larger than the cicada.
Frogs lay on blades of grass, and if you hold the worm, the mother worm will fly, no matter how far away.
If the blood of the mother worm is applied to eighty-one copper coins, the blood of the worm is applied to eighty-one copper coins.
Every time I buy something, I use the money of the mother's blood first, or the money of the blood of the subworm first, and the money spent will fly back again.
This is equivalent to saying that whoever has the money smeared with the blood of the frog mother and child has the money that can never be spent.
"Frogworms repay money" comes from this, and frogworms have become synonymous with money.
"Saying Wen Jie Zi": "Green worms, water insects, can be repaid." ”
Some copper coins are also engraved with the word or pattern of worm.
China's time-honored brand Ruifuxiang specializes in clothing business, and there is a worm on its trademark, which means "green worm pays back".
The five-baht coin unearthed from the tomb of the Marquis of Haiding
The ancients said that money, every word is not money, every word is money.
Spring cloth, money is like flowing water, scattered in all directions.
Entangled, the money wrapped around the body, easy to carry on long journeys.
Brother Kong Fang, it is what copper coins look like.
Frogs, representing people's thirst for money.
And modern people, more of the shape of money is commonly known.
During the Republic of China, the Sichuan military government issued a currency with a horse on the front and a bouquet of orchids on the back, commonly known as Ma Lan Qian.
After the founding of the People's Republic of China, the 10 yuan banknote was printed with the pattern of "the great unity of the people of the whole country".
At that time, people called money "great unity".
Today, on the 100 yuan banknote, is the portrait of Chairman Mao, and modern people call the money "Grandpa Mao".
It's right to love money, take it in the right way, and you are a gentleman.
Poets, which title touches your heart more?